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The Nobel Chemistry Prize is awarded to a trio of chemists for laying the foundation for a more functional form of chemistry. Americans Carolyn Bertozzi and Barry Sharpless, together with Denmark's Morten Meldal are honoured for "for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry". The award marks the second Nobel for 81-year-old Sharpless, who won the chemistry Nobel in 2001. SOUNDBITE
Germany's Benjamin List and David MacMillan of the US win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of a precise new tool for molecular construction, announces Göran K Hansson, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. IMAGES
Thomas Perlmann, Secretary-General for the Nobel Assembly and the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, announces that US scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian have won the Nobel Medicine Prize for discoveries on receptors for temperature and touch. SOUNDBITE
Nobel Chemistry Prize winner Emmanuelle Charpentier says she hopes the award will make young female scientists realise that "nothing is impossible", after she and Jennifer Doudna of the US won for the gene-editing technique known as the CRISPR-Cas9 DNA snipping "scissors", the first time a Nobel science prize has gone to a women-only team. SOUNDBITE
Professor Göran K. Hansson, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, announces that John Goodenough of US, Britain's Stanley Whittingham and Japan's Akira Yoshino win the 2019 Nobel Chemistry Prize. SOUNDBITE
Supporters of Zambian President Lungu hold a rally in Lusaka during a tense presidential race, which has been marked by clashes between rival supporters. The presidential election will take place on Thursday. IMAGES.
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